In 2005, Francesco Longo was taken from Canada to a federal prosecution in Tampa. In 2021, he was arrested again in Windsor. This page is the arc of the case — and every document named on it is published on this site, most of them in The Evidence Packages.
This page stood at this address in the site's earlier edition — the address the estate's banners have always pointed to. This edition restores it: the same arc, its dates and figures checked against the audited record published here. Where the earlier edition stated figures the audited record does not support, they have been removed.
2005 — Taken to Tampa
United States v. Longo, case 8:05-cr-263-T-17MSS, in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida (Tampa). The Canadian proceeding was an extradition — file 05-CR-573 — and 05-CR-573 is the extradition file only, a distinction this record keeps exact.
The docket records his arrest on November 29, 2005 and a bail hearing on January 4, 2006. He was extradited to Tampa in 2006, and the prosecution proceeded there. He pleaded guilty on February 12, 2007. The court's Judgment (Doc. 57) records sentencing on July 6, 2007 — 78 months in federal prison; the filer has always maintained the date was February 14, 2007, and both dates stand in the record, unflattened. The Bureau of Prisons computation sheet — the one document that would referee the sentence arithmetic — has never been produced. His register number was 48743-018; the Bureau's custody ended October 3, 2011.
Global Affairs Canada's letter of June 17, 2026 states, from its own file, that he contacted Canadian consular officials on June 13, 2007 following his detention, and that consular assistance was provided until his release in 2011. The consular file itself — 2007-DALAS-1860511 — has never been produced. Its production was demanded in full on October 27, 2026.
The filer states the taking was unlawful from its first document, that the paperwork of November 29, 2005 does not withstand examination, and that he has never been lawfully released — because no release paper exists. On the existence of the paper, the record agrees with him: in twenty years, no office has produced one.
2021 — Arrested again in Windsor
In May 2021 he was arrested in Windsor, Ontario: Court File 21-845, Information No. 1012001, police Case 94545.
The Law Enforcement Complaints Agency's letter of June 29, 2026 confirms what the police records system shows: a charge numbered 211549 was created on May 22, 2021 at 2:27 p.m. — the same timestamp at which the system states "no current criminal charges." The filer's own motion papers print the number as 211459. The discrepancy stands in the record unmerged; the office that created it has never explained it.
The filer states that his phone was cloned during the May 2021 operation and used to enter his accounts.
He retained counsel, Laura Joy. He terminated the retainer on June 18, 2025 and complained to the Law Society. The filer states that in four and a half years she filed no Charter motion and never obtained the 911 recording of the arrest; when the Crown later produced a recording, it described it in writing — July 10, 2025, in the filer's record — as "an amended redacted version of the 911 Call."
July 2025 — He files himself
Sixteen days after firing his lawyer, on July 4, 2025, the filer filed 17 motions in a single day — witness subpoenas, an emergency evidence-preservation order, a disclosure demand. On July 7 the court convened; the motions were not heard.
What ended the 2021 matter exists only as prose. The Windsor Crown Attorney's office stated it three ways. October 1, 2025: "There are no current active files with our office" — and the same day, asked for the dismissal ruling: "Our office does not keep copies of rulings." October 8, 2025: "Your case has been closed, and all related files have been withdrawn." October 30, 2025: "you currently have no active or pending matters before the court, and your previous matters have been concluded." No written order — of dismissal, of withdrawal, of release — accompanies any of it, then or since.
The filer states he was told the dismissal was oral. He holds no written order, and his position is on the record in his own words: "None of my case has been dismissed anywhere; prove it and then I'll believe it." His filings to return the matter to trial and put his accusers on the stand are unanswered. The demand that the written order be produced — or the matter restored for trial — is published in The Evidence Packages, labelled as what it is: a draft, not yet sent.
The habeas winter — December 2025 to February 2026
On December 26, 2025, the filer filed a Writ of Habeas Corpus with the Superior Court of Justice at Windsor. What came back was a staff letter of January 27, 2026 refusing it because he was not in custody — a trial coordinator's letter, citing no case — and then, after he renewed the application the following day, an endorsement of Justice Carroccia dated January 28, 2026 whose form reads COURT FILE NO.: NONE and whose custody premise rests on words no document sources: "I am advised." The Attorney General of Ontario received the writ eight times — once addressed to him directly — and was never heard on it. A second endorsement, in February, answered demands that had been addressed to the first judge. No writ was ever awarded, no return ever made, no body ever produced, no decision on the habeas corpus ever issued. The whole chain, document by document, is at The Habeas Corpus Record.
2026 — The documented record
In October 2026 the filer completed an audit of everything he had ever filed, for himself and for the Ceylan family: 97 filings — 29 with receipt proof, 21 with any written response, exactly 4 substantive determinations, all of them complaint-level, and none, ever, on a court instrument. The audit is published at The Filings Record.
On October 27, 2026, the whole record went to the federal government at once: a Justice Canada file opened — X-P-2026-00094 — with four packages delivered onto it; the consular file demanded from Global Affairs; the police records demanded from the RCMP; the police-complaint refusal carried to five doors; the victims-fund application — undecided and unpaid after seven months — pressed with its accounting demanded. That night, an interim payment demand was delivered to the Attorney General of Canada with 24 hours on it, and an open letter followed, published in full. Both instruments stand on this site exactly as delivered.
In his words
"I was chosen as a vessel by God to do this. I did not choose this. I did not want this. It was forced upon me. But I have the perseverance." — Francesco Giovanni Longo, July 1, 2026, in the earlier edition of this page
United States v. Longo, PACER docket 8:05-cr-263-T-17MSS (arrest November 29, 2005; plea February 12, 2007; Judgment Doc. 57; register 48743-018; BOP custody-end October 3, 2011); Global Affairs Canada letter, June 17, 2026 (consular file 2007-DALAS-1860511); Windsor Crown letters, October 1, 8 and 30, 2025; LECA letter, June 29, 2026; the endorsements of January 28 and February 26, 2026; the filings audit of October 27, 2026; the filer's published account in the earlier edition of this page (July 2026), recovered from the site's own deployment archive and preserved in the filer's records.